Automobile choke-actuated mechanism



March 10, 1931. E. J. ElCH 1,795,645

AUTOMOBILE CHOKE ACTUATED MECHANISM Filed Aug. 2. 1929 INVENTOR ard/ fli Z ORNEY i end of a substantially straight lever arm 13.

Patented Mar. 10, 1931 I I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE EDWARD J. EICH, OF SHETE'K, MINNESOTA AUTOMOBILE CHOKE-ACTUATED MECHANISM Application filed August 2, 1929. Serial No. 383,082.

My invention, relates to improvements for construction adapted for use in connection controlling the choke rod on automobiles. with a hollow form of gear shifting lever. In some automobiles, a choke rod is so In the form shown in Figure 4, a rod 16 is positioned that it is somewhat difficult for substituted for the sleeve 6, a finger hold 17 5 the driver to effectively handle the choke rod being carried by the upper end of the rod 16.

on account of the drivers position in relation In the use of the form shown in Figure 4, to the gear control lever, and, in my inventhe rod 16 is connected with the choke rod tion, I provide means associated with the and acts the sameas the sleeve 6 in the form ear control lever, and particularly convenshown in Figure 3. 10 ient for the driver in controlling the car. In use, where it is desired to actuate the These and other features of the invention choke rod. against the tension of the spring will be more particularly pointed out and 4, the driver simply pulls up the sleeve 6 or described in the following description and the rod 16, as the case may be, turning the the accompanying drawings, wherein: bell crank lever 10 to push the rod 12 forward 16 Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section and through the lever arm 14 push the choke through a portion of an automobile alongside rod 2 outwardly against the tension of the the choke rod and gear shift lever. spring 4 to perforn'i the ordinary operation F igure 2 1s a sectional View On llne 2 of choking, as in starting a car. As soon as of Iugure 1. the pressure is relieved upon the sleeve 6 or 20 Figure 7) is a detail View of a gear shift r d 16 a th case may be, the spring 4 will lever and associated choke rod mech n m, return the choke rod in the ordinary manshown partly broken away and v ner to a normal position. In the use of my Flgure 4 is a View slml ar t0 g invention it is not, therefore,necessary for the showing a slightly mod1ficd C HS I C driver to directly manipulate the choke rod 2,

25 Referr ng t0 t e drawi gs in t A -P- but said rod is entirely manipulated by the resents the body of an ordinary automo ile, action of the sleeve 6 or rod 16 arranged in 2 indicates th rdina y ChOke PP connection with the gear shift lever. This is ed in connection With the dash o and a matter. of great convenience to the driver, tending through the same to the carburettor with the parts as they are in connection with an mechanism 3 to control the choking in. the the ordinary automobile.

ordinary manner. The choke rod is oper- I l i atedagainst the HSUal H H p g At In an automobile, in combination with the 5 1s lndlcated the ordin ryg fi level! usual choke rod and gear shift lever, a slid- In carrying out my invent1on,I provide the bl h d tuat d member supported by 35 following mechanism: Shdably supported th gear hift l a b ll Crank lever pes p the Shift level 15 a sleeve 6 havlng ported below the gear shift lever, a link con- 21 fl nge 7 a its upp End for hand g genection between onearm of said lever and merit- Th lower @1161 Of the Sleeve 6 15 said slidable member, an actuating lever arm formed with a lateral arm 8 connected by 11 arranged in connection with the lower end of it link 9, with the upper arm of a bell crank th h k d, a d Connecting th arm f no lever l The bell Crank level" 10 has Slut said bell crank lever opposite the gear shift able Plmtal pp 11 underneath e lever with the lever arm arranged in connec of the car. The lower arm of the bell crank i ith th h k d, i th manner d lever 10 is connected by a rod 12 to the lower f th purpose t f 1 'In testimony whereof I affix my signature. v5

Thelever arm 13 has central pivotal support EDWARD J 1 14, the upper end of the lever arm 13 loosely fitting between the rin flanges 15 around the lower end of the choke rod.

50 Figure 4 illustrates a slightly modified 

